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Music for Dark Mornings

A playlist of listeners’ suggestions for music to indulge or brighten dark mornings.

BBC Playlister Breakfast Music Box

Breakfast brings you a Music Box of pieces recommended by listeners to guide and inspire you throughout the year.

You can listen to the whole collection of works in BBC Playlister.

Composer Title
John Dowland In darkness let me dwell
Cyril Scott Lotus Land
Maurice Ravel Daphnis and Chloe Suite No. 2 'Lever du Jour'
Alexandre Tharaud Sonata (Kk.132) in C major
Joseph Haydn The Creation: In the Beginning & Now Vanish Before the Holy Beams
Joseph Canteloube Chants d'Auvergne - set 2: Pastourelle (Shepherd's Lass)
James MacMillan O Radiant Dawn
Carl Nielsen Helios Overture
Sir Philip Ledger Foggy Foggy Dew
Joseph Haydn String Quartet in B flat major Op.76 No.4
George Frideric Handel L'Allegro, Il Penseroso ed il Moderato: As Steals the Morn
Ferde Grofé Grand Canyon Suite: Sunrise
George Frideric Handel Theodora - oratorio in 3 acts, Act 1, Sc.4: As with rosy steps the morn
Robert Farnon Jumping Bean
Sir Arthur Sullivan Iolanthe Act 2, No.7: Love unrequited...When you're lying awake
Benjamin Britten Simple Symphony: Playful Pizzicato
Vincent d'Indy Miramar de Mallorca Mediterranee: Le Joie du bleu profond
Leroy Anderson Clarinet Candy
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Symphony No.41 in C 'Jupiter'
Flanders and Swann A Song of the Weather
Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély Sortie in E flat major for organ
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Flute Concerto in G: I. Allegro Maestoso

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